Question - login Bat file please help

[Cosmicbrn420]

Hello
using autologin function tries to load all toons just seconds apart and most error on my older laptop.
been lookin in forums and seems batch files solve this for some.
after research and trial and error I've come to this, i know it needs to be turned to a bat then exe witch ive done and tested but can only get it to start mq2 then i get nothing
please help me learn

 

[Knightly]

You don't need to turn it into an exe, you just name it bat or cmd and it'll run. But your issue is that your start command is wrong. Multiple issues there, the first being that you're using the path as the title of the start window while using /b to not launch a new wiindow. You've also already switched paths so you don't need the full path. The way to troubleshoot this is to go to that directory from a command prompt and launch the command until you get it working.

 

[Cosmicbrn420]

You don't need to turn it into an exe, you just name it bat or cmd and it'll run. But your issue is that your start command is wrong. Multiple issues there, the first being that you're using the path as the title of the start window while using /b to not launch a new wiindow. You've also already switched paths so you don't need the full path. The way to troubleshoot this is to go to that directory from a command prompt and launch the command until you get it working.

Thanks for your reply Knightly
with this i can get the first toon to load and if i alt tab out after, the second will load.
how can i make it put first toon in Background before it tries to load second toon?
id like to just use mq2autologin but it loads them too fast and only 1 or two ends up loaded, that is why I'm trying to use this Batch file in conjunction with mq2autologin


@Echo OFF
cd c:\Users\brnbu\Redguides

REM This line will start RedGuide MQ2 ...
start MacroQuest2.exe

REM couple seconds to give MQ2 time to load.
ping localhost -n 10 >nul


REM Launch EQBCS-eqmule.exe now....
start EQBCS-eqmule.exe

REM couple seconds to give EQBCS-eqmule.exe time to fully load.
ping localhost -n 2 >nul


REM Now lets call each configured MQ2autologin toon we want to lauch.

cd /d d:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Everquest F2P
start "" eqgame.exe patchme /login:Group_server:name

ping localhost -n 90 >nul

start "" eqgame.exe patchme /login:Group_server:name

ping localhost -n 90 >nul

 

[kaen01]

Are you running fullscreen mode or in windowed mode?

For me in windowed mode, all my clients loaded, with this bat:

@Echo OFF

REM Switch to MQ2 folder
cd /d c:\Users\brnbu\Redguides

REM This line will start RedGuide MQ2 ...
start MacroQuest2.exe

REM couple seconds to give MQ2 time to load.
timeout 2

REM Launch EQBCS-eqmule.exe now....
start EQBCS-eqmule.exe

REM couple seconds to give EQBCS-eqmule.exe time to fully load.
timeout 2

REM Switch to EQ folder
cd /d d:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Everquest F2P

REM Start each autologin profile using this syntax:  eqgame.exe patchme /login:Group_server:name
start eqgame.exe patchme /login:Group_server:name
timeout 15
start eqgame.exe patchme /login:Group_server:name
timeout 15
start eqgame.exe patchme /login:Group_server:name
timeout 15
start eqgame.exe patchme /login:Group_server:name
timeout 15
start eqgame.exe patchme /login:Group_server:name

 

[playj]

A great alternative to manually creating bats would be a setting in autologin. -

https://www.redguides.com/community/threads/mq2autologin-ultimate-information-dump.62395/

As much as I love autologin plugin I still wish there was an ini setting to adjust delay between account loads.

On a high latency connection I lose half my group when using plain autologin.

I went through autologin source one time looking for a suitable place to place such a delay, but my C++ is Rust(y) these days..

 

[methodx]

On next if you right click the icon to choose another character it pauses launching instances, I don't know if that would help you.

Click to load your group, after the first instance opens, right click the icon again to choose another account, when you click off the menu again it will resume loading.

 

[Knightly]

On a high latency connection I lose half my group when using plain autologin.

I went through autologin source one time looking for a suitable place to place such a delay, but my C++ is Rust(y) these days..

Have you tried this on Next and do you have the same behavior? This sounds like legacy MQ2 behavior. But the reason you can't find it in the autologin plugin is the autologin plugin doesn't handle that, it would be the launcher.

On next if you right click the icon to choose another character it pauses launching instances, I don't know if that would help you.

They're not using Next.

 

[Cosmicbrn420]

Thanks everybody. Regular mq2autologin in windowed mode works for me to load all 6 toons. Also learned about batch files and got mine to work with the help and suggestions

 

[Cosmicbrn420]

Are you running fullscreen mode or in windowed mode?

For me in windowed mode, all my clients loaded, with this bat:

@Echo OFF

REM Switch to MQ2 folder
cd /d c:\Users\brnbu\Redguides

REM This line will start RedGuide MQ2 ...
start MacroQuest2.exe

REM couple seconds to give MQ2 time to load.
timeout 2

REM Launch EQBCS-eqmule.exe now....
start EQBCS-eqmule.exe

REM couple seconds to give EQBCS-eqmule.exe time to fully load.
timeout 2

REM Switch to EQ folder
cd /d d:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Everquest F2P

REM Start each autologin profile using this syntax:  eqgame.exe patchme /login:Group_server:name
start eqgame.exe patchme /login:Group_server:name
timeout 15
start eqgame.exe patchme /login:Group_server:name
timeout 15
start eqgame.exe patchme /login:Group_server:name
timeout 15
start eqgame.exe patchme /login:Group_server:name
timeout 15
start eqgame.exe patchme /login:Group_server:name

Was trying to do it in fullscreen but got it to work in windowed. Thank you for taking time to send this bat file it helped me learn

 

[Cosmicbrn420]

On next if you right click the icon to choose another character it pauses launching instances, I don't know if that would help you.

Click to load your group, after the first instance opens, right click the icon again to choose another account, when you click off the menu again it will resume loading.

Not on next yet, I tried it but there was no Muleassist